As the River Flows and the City Grows Art Workshops

Name: As the River Flows and the City Grows Art Workshops
Start: 2024-11-09T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-11-16T13:00:00-07:00
Location: 707 - 13 Ave SW, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0K8

Schedule

Sat Nov 09 2024 at 01:00 pm to Sat Nov 16 2024 at 01:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

707 - 13 Ave SW, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0K8 | Calgary, AB

We are delighted to be offering two free art workshops with some of the artists behind the newest exhibit, As the River Flows and the City Grows! Check them out below:
*FULL* Caribou Hair Tufting with Amber Boyd
Saturday, November 9th
1:00-4:00 pm
When you sew, do you end up all in knots? If so, then this Indigenous traditional art form may be for you! Tufting beautiful flowers involves sewing and knotting bundles of caribou hair to leather or canvas/fabric. Come out and learn how easy it is to make your own colourful flower pendant. All supplies are included.
Registration: https://crm.lougheedhouse.com/civicrm/event/register/?reset=1&id=24
*FULL* Trapper’s Tent Panels: Beginner Friendly Metis Beadwork with riel starr
Saturday, November 16th
1:00-3:00 pm
This event is all about coming together as a community to learn about Metis culture and create beautiful beadwork together. We will be working on artwork which hangs in the interior of this Trappers tent (pictured). This tent, unveiled just last year, is owned by Parks Calgary and pops up at various green spaces for community events.
Slowly, through workshops like this one, community members are adding beads to the floral frames of the extra large panels which hold archival photographs, illustrating the local history of the Metis people in Mohkinsts'is (Calgary). We are inviting you to come add your own unique touch!
Whether you're a total beginner or an experienced beadworker, there's something for everyone to enjoy. All supplies will be provided. Let's celebrate creativity and culture together through the art of beadwork. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with the community and unleash your creativity!
Registration: https://crm.lougheedhouse.com/civicrm/event/register/?reset=1&id=25

Artist Bios:
Amber Boyd:
When not working at her day job, this Métis writer can usually be found tapping the keys of her sticker-covered laptop, crafting her latest bewitching tale. A couple of Amber’s published short stories are in the Amazon number one best-selling anthology, Above and Beneath. Her winning 2019 Kemosa scholarship submission, “Howling at the Moon,” is published as a stand-alone short story and within the anthology Undeath by Chocolate and her 2022 Kemosa Scholarship submission, “Spirit Bead,” took second place in the annual Writers’ Guild of Alberta contest.
Amber holds a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Calgary Faculty of Continuing Education and is currently finishing her MFA in creative writing at UBC. In 2021, she won a spot in the Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle program with her essay “Picking Up the Crumbs,” which later made the shortlist for The Malahat Review’s 2021 Constance Rooke CNF Prize. In April 2022, she joined the University of Calgary Faculty of Continuing Education’s creative writing instructor team for a term as an Indigenous Writing Instructor for their Writing 500 course.
When she’s not writing, she paints, beads, and creates works of art. Her artwork and photography have appeared in the Indigenous Motherhood and Matriarchy Exhibition at Arts Common, Mino-Pimatisiwin: Reclaiming the Good Life photography exhibition at the Grande, the Truth & Reconciliation Exhibition at Arts Common, the Honouring Our Children Exhibition at Sparrow Artspace, the Reconciliation Exhibit at Southcentre Mall, and the Wasakamapiwak Wearable Art Collective Exhibition.
Amber also sits on the Board of Directors for the Indigenous Editors Association and represents her Nation on the Indigenous Advisory Circle for Banff National Park. She lives in Rocky View Métis District, in the town of Cochrane, Alberta, with her husband, two kids, and infamous black cats.

riel starr:
I am riel, a Red River Métis artist based in Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 (Calgary, Alberta). My practice counters the settler-colonial understanding of the Métis people and culture through interdisciplinary modality and discusses themes of site specificity, local histories, as well as past and present ways in which people engage with the land around them. I create as a means of challenging and undermining colonial ways of knowing by revealing overlooked and hidden histories through zines and personal writing, recontextualizing objects and archival materials.
At the core of my practice are concepts defined in the works of Gerald Vizenor, Sara Ahmed, and Chantal Fiola whose writings discuss notions of survivance, queer phenomenology, traditional Métis teachings, and appreciation for the lands that hold us.